Pablo Quiroga Escamilla

Pablo Quiroga Escamilla (7 June 1875-26 June 1948) was the Secretary of War and the Navy from 1932 to 1935, succeeding Abelardo L. Rodriguez and preceding Andres Figueroa; Lazaro Cardenas briefly served in this post in 1933 between Quiroga's two terms.

Biography
Pablo Quiroga Escamilla was born on 7 June 1875 in Cienega de Flores, Nuevo Flores, Mexico, and he joined the Anti-Reelectionist Party in 1910 at the start of the Mexican Revolution. He joined a volunteer corps' battalion of lancers and fought in Sinaloa, Sonora, Nayarit, and Jalisco during the war, and he became a colonel on 13 December 1914. In 1929, he fought against Jose Gonzalo Escobar's rebels on the order of President Plutarco Elias Calles, and he would serve as Secretary of War and the Navy from 1932 to 1935 under Calles' protege Lazaro Cardenas. He retired in 1935, and he died in 1948.